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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Michael McGowan

Greens push for federal ‘right to protest’ law after NSW jailing of Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco

Climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco.
Climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco is appealing a 15-month sentence imposed on her following a protest on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

A series of harsh state-based laws cracking down on climate activists could be overridden by a federal “right to protest” bill being pushed by the Greens.

After the jailing of climate activist Deanna “Violet” Coco in New South Wales this month, the party says the commonwealth has the power to overturn the series of state laws passed in recent years that experts say curtailed the right to protest in Australia.

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